0:00:02 > 0:00:03Samira Hashi
0:00:03 > 0:00:05is a 21-year-old model.
0:00:05 > 0:00:08I love modelling. It's just so fun,
0:00:08 > 0:00:09Really exciting.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11You can really enjoy yourself,
0:00:11 > 0:00:15and rock on and frock and roll.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17Samira was born in Somalia, East Africa.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20She came to Britain when she was three years old.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Growing up in London has been fantastic for me.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27It literally has made me believe that
0:00:27 > 0:00:29I can achieve anything in the world.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32But much as she loves the UK,
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Samira has begun to feel cut off from her roots.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36As I've grown older,
0:00:36 > 0:00:41I've started to realise that there is a part of me that's missing.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43Everybody seems to say to me, "You're British."
0:00:43 > 0:00:47I'm like, "What do you mean I'm British? I'm Somali."
0:00:47 > 0:00:49And they're like, "No, you're British."
0:00:49 > 0:00:51I'm confused.com.
0:00:51 > 0:00:52I'm so confused.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Now Samira is going back to Somalia
0:00:55 > 0:00:57to find the answers she's looking for.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59But how will the girl from London
0:00:59 > 0:01:02cope in the most dangerous place in the world?
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Somalia has been in a bloody civil war
0:01:10 > 0:01:12for as long as Samira has been alive.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15With no stable government for over twenty years,
0:01:15 > 0:01:19it's chaos - a breeding ground, for warlords, pirates,
0:01:19 > 0:01:22and fanatical Islamic terrorists.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27Al-Shabaab, now joined to al-Qaeda, control much of Somalia.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29I am bloody scared.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32There's fighting going on there, as we speak.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Samira will retrace her mother's footsteps
0:01:36 > 0:01:39as she fled the brutality of the war.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41And she'll meet the people left behind.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Why did they do that?
0:01:50 > 0:01:53She'll travel back to the refugee camps where she spent
0:01:53 > 0:01:55the first two years of her life, and see first-hand
0:01:55 > 0:01:57a desperate battle for survival.
0:01:57 > 0:02:02It's so hard I just want to, I just want to come home.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07And after eighteen years apart, she has an emotional reunion.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Dad!
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Will her journey be everything she hopes?
0:02:14 > 0:02:17I'm home! Look how beautiful that is!
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Or will she discover horrors she never imagined?
0:02:21 > 0:02:23They're going to mutilate a six-year-old.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26Does that not make anybody physically sick?
0:02:38 > 0:02:40It's a week until Samira leaves for Somalia,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43and she has a modelling interview to prepare for.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Oh, look at my pimple!
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Modelling maybe Samira's dream,
0:02:50 > 0:02:53but her revealing poses
0:02:53 > 0:02:57have brought her into conflict with her Muslim religion and her mother.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01She's very thin. I don't like thin.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04I like a little bit chubby.
0:03:04 > 0:03:05You look like broom!
0:03:05 > 0:03:09You look like broom! Cheers(!)
0:03:12 > 0:03:19Those trousers are banging tartan. Grey leather jacket, amazing!
0:03:19 > 0:03:23Oh, my god! It's heart-breaking.
0:03:23 > 0:03:29You know our culture and our religion, it's not our dignity.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32There's worse things that I could be doing, basically, in London.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34I could be taking drugs.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37I could be a prostitute. Or modelling for Vivien Westwood.
0:03:37 > 0:03:44I will pray for Samira. I will pray for Samira for changing her life.
0:03:44 > 0:03:51Her mom hopes the trip will bring Samira closer to her religion,
0:03:51 > 0:03:52but she knows only too well
0:03:52 > 0:03:55the dangers her daughter will face in Somalia.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06And it wasn't settled 21 years ago, either.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Clutching ten-day-old Samira and her four sisters,
0:04:09 > 0:04:13she ran from their home in Mogadishu as the war broke out.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28They escaped to a refugee camp where they spent the next two years.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Everything Samira knows about Somalia
0:04:41 > 0:04:44she's heard from her mum, or seen on the news.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46Now, she wants to see it for herself.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50But there isn't a more dangerous destination she could be going to.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54All I know of Somalia is the war, the violence, famine, drought.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56No government, no system, no law,
0:04:56 > 0:05:00so, I'm like, "Oh, my gosh! Where am I going?"
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Despite her fears, Samira wants to go back
0:05:03 > 0:05:05to understand what her family went through,
0:05:05 > 0:05:11and to see how different life would be if they'd stayed behind.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13- But she needs reassurance. - I want to here more about it.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16I haven't even thought about it, cos I don't want to think
0:05:16 > 0:05:17what I'm going to see, you know?
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Because if I think about it and I'll just be put off.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24You have a chance to go back to your home country,
0:05:24 > 0:05:27to a place that is suffering.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31It's going to make you a stronger, more in-depth person, as well.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33I think you're going to learn a lot about yourself,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35but if anyone can handle it, you can.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38I don't think so. Samira is emotional like.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41She watches X Factor and she cries.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48The day of departure has arrived.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Sun-lotion, I've got that. Can't wait for the sun.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56It's not just the risks Samira needs to prepare for.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58She will also be meeting her father,
0:05:58 > 0:06:00who's come and gone throughout her life.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03He wasn't with them when the war began, or in the refugee camps.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04I got my dad something.
0:06:04 > 0:06:071 Million. I love this perfume.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10And though he did join the family in London,
0:06:10 > 0:06:13he abandoned them for good when Samira was only three years old
0:06:13 > 0:06:15She hasn't seen him since.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19It's been 18 years since I've seen my dad. I don't know what a father is.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Every child would love to have a father,
0:06:22 > 0:06:25it would change their household,
0:06:25 > 0:06:28but my mum raised me the best way she did,
0:06:28 > 0:06:32but I know our house would be better.
0:06:32 > 0:06:33Quite sad.
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Her mum is worried that the reunion
0:06:34 > 0:06:36won't live up to Samira's expectations.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48It won't close.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51It needs to close. Close!
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Auntie's going.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55- Where?- Somalia.
0:06:55 > 0:07:00Samira is hoping her trip to Africa will not only answer her questions
0:07:00 > 0:07:01about who she is,
0:07:01 > 0:07:05but also explain why her father left them eighteen years ago.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09So, before going to Somalia to see
0:07:09 > 0:07:12how two decades of war have affected her homeland,
0:07:12 > 0:07:15she'll be stopping off at her father's home town
0:07:15 > 0:07:17of Dire Dawa in Ethiopia.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23I'm excited to see my dad,
0:07:23 > 0:07:24and to see my country.
0:07:27 > 0:07:28After a sixteen hour journey,
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Samira catches a glimpse of the continent where she was born.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35I can see mountains and it just looks so beautiful out there.
0:07:47 > 0:07:52For the first time in eighteen years, Samira is back in Africa.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56It's a huge culture shock.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00It's just crazy.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03I don't know how I'm going to last three weeks.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07The city of Dire Dawa is home to a hundred thousand Somalis,
0:08:07 > 0:08:10who have fled from the chaos in their own country.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13It's one of the poorest areas in the region,
0:08:13 > 0:08:15with an average salary of one pound per day.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19I'm quite shocked there are so many people lying on the floor.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22There are so many kids out. Shouldn't they be at school?
0:08:22 > 0:08:25But for Samira, coming here is the first step
0:08:25 > 0:08:26in understanding her roots.
0:08:26 > 0:08:31She's minutes away from the most important reunion of her life.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35I can't wait to see him but I feel quite emotional.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Because I haven't seen him in years.
0:08:37 > 0:08:42I have vague memories but it's really hard to remember
0:08:42 > 0:08:44what he actually looks like.
0:08:48 > 0:08:53This is the moment Samira feared would never come.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56Dad! Ahhhhh.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04No. You look very different.
0:09:08 > 0:09:09Yeah.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15Her dad has a new family - a young wife, and three sons.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Do you know I'm your sister?
0:09:23 > 0:09:26So weird how you look so different, but you do look good.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31No, you look good, for your age, yeah.
0:09:41 > 0:09:47- Sorry, but I'm a huge Arsenal fan. I had to get you Arsenal.- Arsenal?
0:09:47 > 0:09:49After travelling nearly four thousand miles,
0:09:49 > 0:09:54Samira wants to savour every second of having a father back in her life.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57But she has eighteen years of questions she needs to ask.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59I didn't think I'd see you again.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Why?
0:10:01 > 0:10:04- Because it's been so long.- Yeah.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06So, why did you leave, anyway?
0:10:06 > 0:10:10You were in London in the first place. Why?
0:10:10 > 0:10:13- Didn't like it?- What? - You didn't like it?
0:10:13 > 0:10:14No.
0:10:19 > 0:10:20Is that the only reason?
0:10:30 > 0:10:31- Got married?- Yeah.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Samira and her sisters have always suspected
0:10:38 > 0:10:42that their father was never truly happy with a family of girls.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46Traditionally in Somali culture, the birth of a son is celebrated
0:10:46 > 0:10:50but the birth of a daughter can bring disappointment.
0:10:50 > 0:10:51Did you want boys?
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Is that why you got re-married again?
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Is it to continue the family name, Hashi?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Yeah.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Really? Bloody hell.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07My name is Hashi.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08I could have done that for you.
0:11:08 > 0:11:12It's difficult for Samira to accept that her father considered them
0:11:12 > 0:11:15second best when he left them behind in London.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18It was hard.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26- Because of mum.- Yeah.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44A lifetime apart, and the reunion lasts just an hour.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Is that how you're going to... give me a shake?
0:11:48 > 0:11:49Yeah.
0:11:52 > 0:11:53I kind of knew it.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57He'd rather have a son than have a daughter.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59And, obviously, he's got boys
0:11:59 > 0:12:01and he said he's going to make two more.
0:12:01 > 0:12:07So, it's like, five girls, five boys, that's my dad for you.
0:12:07 > 0:12:08But...
0:12:10 > 0:12:16..me and my sisters are more than blessed in London.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18My mum's my mum and dad.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25As she leaves Dire Dawa,
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Samira's got some of the answers she was looking for.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31But the journey to understand her birthplace is just beginning.
0:12:31 > 0:12:36I'm used to big planes like, you know, British Airways, easyJet.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40This, me? No.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49And things are about to get a lot tougher.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52She's travelling to a refugee camp like the one her family escaped to
0:12:52 > 0:12:54just ten days after she was born.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Samira's heading south to the camps near Dolo Ado
0:13:02 > 0:13:05on the Somalia-Ethiopian border.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09But the weather conditions have made it impossible to fly direct.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12The last leg of the journey will be by road.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18Over half a million Somalis are living in refugee camps,
0:13:18 > 0:13:22and more arrive every day.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25They're still fleeing the brutal war,
0:13:25 > 0:13:28and this year's drought has gripped the nation.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30It's a humanitarian disaster.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47The journey to Dolo Ado will take eight hours,
0:13:47 > 0:13:50and will be along some of the worst roads in Ethiopia.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54We are going on the most bumpiest journey.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59I feel like my intestines are going to explode.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Accidents are common,
0:14:01 > 0:14:05and with no medical facilities for hundreds of miles,
0:14:05 > 0:14:07a small injury can be fatal.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11What's down here?
0:14:11 > 0:14:16As she nears the Somali border, the road becomes impassable.
0:14:16 > 0:14:17The bridge is broken.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21After months of drought, heavy rainfall has finally arrived,
0:14:21 > 0:14:23but that's also caused problems.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25It doesn't look like it's coming out
0:14:25 > 0:14:28and it doesn't look like we're going in.
0:14:31 > 0:14:32No RAC here!
0:14:41 > 0:14:45With only an hour of sunlight left,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Samira needs to reach the camp before dark.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52This region is known to be occupied by the Islamic terrorist
0:14:52 > 0:14:56group al-Shabaab, and travelling at night can be dangerous.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59Al-Shabaab control large parts of Somalia,
0:14:59 > 0:15:03and has imposed its own form of strict Islamic law.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Westerners are targeted.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10I've decided to wear a headscarf just to show a bit of respect.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12My mum never really forced us.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15She said it was our choice.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19My sister wears a headscarf. All my aunties, my mum wears a headscarf.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21It's just something that didn't happen with me.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24I love my hair and I want to show it.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Finally Samira makes it to her accommodation -
0:15:32 > 0:15:34a UN compound in Dolo Ado.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Earlier this year,
0:15:36 > 0:15:40al-Shabaab kidnapped two aid workers from a refugee camp.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41So, for her own safety,
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Samira will be sleeping in the security of the compound
0:15:44 > 0:15:47a couple of miles from the nearest camp.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Everyone who arrives is made aware of the risks.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53The UN and the international NGO's face a number of threats,
0:15:53 > 0:15:56armed conflict and terrorism being two of those threats.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00There's a large military presence in the area.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03The Ethiopian National Defence Force,
0:16:03 > 0:16:05generally fighting with al-Shabaab.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07You're only a kilometre and half from Somalia,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10where the Kenyan military were ambushed
0:16:10 > 0:16:12in the middle of a town, three days ago, and at least
0:16:12 > 0:16:14one person's been killed and 11 badly wounded.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19I didn't realise how dangerous this place is.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22It's actually really dangerous to be here.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24There's barbed wires everywhere.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27Checking cars before they come in.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30There's armed police officers outside.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34I could imagine a bomb being thrown into this compound
0:16:34 > 0:16:36and just blowing it all up.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39And we're going to be here for a few days, which is quite scary.
0:16:44 > 0:16:49Living in the compound means no hot water,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52no electricity, and sharing a tent.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55There's so many bugs, they're massive.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01Yeah, run away from me now, but when I'm sleeping they'll be all over us.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05Tomorrow, Samira will experience, for herself, the conditions
0:17:05 > 0:17:08her family faced in a refugee camp.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09I think it will be very emotional
0:17:09 > 0:17:11because it'll remind me of what
0:17:11 > 0:17:13my mum and my family went through.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16It'll be hard because I'll be like, "Oh, my gosh!
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Did mum actually go through this?"
0:17:28 > 0:17:32The day breaks for the hundred and fifty thousand refugees
0:17:32 > 0:17:35spread across the five camps at Dolo Ado.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40As a child, Samira and her mother spent two years
0:17:40 > 0:17:42living in a camp like this one.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45It's the size of 700 football pitches,
0:17:45 > 0:17:48and there are people everywhere.
0:17:48 > 0:17:53All these people are waiting to be registered, everyone?
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Everyone around here.
0:17:56 > 0:18:00Everyone here is running from the chaos in Somalia.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Many fled the threat of starvation.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Others run from the terror of al-Shabaab.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14They killed his children.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17In front of you?
0:18:32 > 0:18:33Like Samira's mother,
0:18:33 > 0:18:36the refugees here left everything they owned behind them.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42They're forced to rely on handouts and whatever they can find.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45A new home made out of sticks,
0:18:45 > 0:18:47or a tent to share.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51How many people live here?
0:19:04 > 0:19:08They're literally sleeping on top of each other.
0:19:18 > 0:19:23The camps provide a sanctuary for the refugees,
0:19:23 > 0:19:24but many die on the journey to get there.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28And they all arrive hungry.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32Just now we've got four kids and they don't have parents.
0:19:32 > 0:19:37They lost their dad and mum and they walked for up to two weeks.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Aaaaaw!
0:19:40 > 0:19:43The boy looks like he's been through a lot.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47They are traumatised and it's a bit difficult for them to open up.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52You'll make sure that they find something or somewhere?
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Yes, yes, yes, of course.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02Life in the camp couldn't be further away
0:20:02 > 0:20:04from the glamour of the catwalk.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07But Samira is finally starting to understand
0:20:07 > 0:20:10exactly what it's like to be a refugee.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13It's a huge thing for these people to actually be somewhere safe,
0:20:13 > 0:20:15first and foremost.
0:20:15 > 0:20:20These people, here, are either running because they're scared,
0:20:20 > 0:20:25or running because they're starving.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28And it's, like,
0:20:28 > 0:20:32that black and white.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40Samira's presence in the camp has created a stir amongst the children.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42The kids are so cute.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46They've got no entertainment, so the camera, to them,
0:20:46 > 0:20:48is the most exciting thing.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59Samira is visiting the camp's makeshift hospital,
0:20:59 > 0:21:01a half-hour-drive away.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04It's where the most dangerously ill refugees are treated,
0:21:04 > 0:21:07including countless children.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09I feel like I need to be strong.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11If I can't be strong for myself,
0:21:11 > 0:21:15I need to be strong for them but I don't know how it will affect me
0:21:15 > 0:21:17because I've never seen a dying child.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23The hospital is run by the aid organisation,
0:21:23 > 0:21:24Medecins Sans Frontieres.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26This year alone,
0:21:26 > 0:21:29they have treated more than 25,000 patients.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Malnutrition is the killer.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35More than half of the children entering the camps
0:21:35 > 0:21:37are dangerously ill,
0:21:37 > 0:21:41and up to 200 die every day.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43So, this is the intensive care unit.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47Pretty much, the very sick children are admitted to this unit.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Caroline is one of the doctors.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54This is a child who was admitted yesterday morning and ever since
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- with real difficulties breathing. - How old's the baby?
0:21:57 > 0:22:00It's 6 months old,
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Its 3.2 kilos, at 6 months old,
0:22:03 > 0:22:06so that's the weight of a new born in Europe.
0:22:07 > 0:22:11The malnourished children are fed Plumpy'nut - a high-energy,
0:22:11 > 0:22:14protein-rich paste, that's vital in helping them recover.
0:22:17 > 0:22:22But it's also a valuable commodity, and has a high black-market price.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Some mothers are secretly selling their child's supplies
0:22:24 > 0:22:26to buy other necessities.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30They buy clothes, soap, other food.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32It's a matter of them sometimes not understanding
0:22:32 > 0:22:34- the value of Plumpy'nut.- Yeah.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39They're not highly educated, so it's difficult for them
0:22:39 > 0:22:45- to understand that this package is medicine for the child.- Yeah.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48So, the child suffers.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50All the family suffer.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Everyone suffers.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57It's a desperate act, but for those with nothing,
0:22:57 > 0:23:00it's the only currency they have.
0:23:03 > 0:23:08I was raised in a country where you could go to your local 24-hour shop,
0:23:08 > 0:23:14if you get thirsty or dehydrated or hungry at 3, 4 in the morning.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19There's people here that don't have food for sometimes weeks and months.
0:23:19 > 0:23:24In the 21st century you'd think that everyone would have food
0:23:24 > 0:23:29and shelter but it doesn't really work out like that.
0:23:31 > 0:23:35It's been a tough first day.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36But just when Samira thinks
0:23:36 > 0:23:40she's got through, she meets a mother with a sick child.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43It's too much.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Two-year-old Kawsar is the same age Samira was
0:23:49 > 0:23:52when she was last in a refugee camp.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- Stop, crying. It's OK.- I can't.
0:23:55 > 0:23:56Stop it.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04Kawsar is suffering from an illness that can be treated
0:24:04 > 0:24:06with the technology of a fully equipped hospital.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09But here, his chances are slim.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Stop it.
0:24:31 > 0:24:32Samira.
0:24:37 > 0:24:38But the baby's in pain.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Samira's first day at the camp has been difficult,
0:24:46 > 0:24:49and she needs to speak to her mum on a satellite phone.
0:24:49 > 0:24:54Mum, hoo, it's so hard out here.
0:24:54 > 0:24:55It's so hard.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58I don't know how these people do it.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00How do people live like this?
0:25:02 > 0:25:05I don't know how you did it!
0:25:05 > 0:25:08It's so hard. I just want to...
0:25:10 > 0:25:12I just want to come home.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29She's only been in Africa a few days,
0:25:29 > 0:25:32but the experience is already making her think about her life
0:25:32 > 0:25:34as a model in London.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38I was so focussed on one thing that I forgot what was happening around me.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41I was so in tune with my fashion and my modelling.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45I had a goal, I was chasing it. I couldn't care about anything else.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47And then I come here and I'm just like,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50"Oh, my gosh! That's really not that important!"
0:25:52 > 0:25:57This morning Samira is travelling to a refugee camp called Kobe,
0:25:57 > 0:26:00two hours' drive from the UN compound.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Every trip is potentially dangerous, but today,
0:26:02 > 0:26:05the stakes have been raised.
0:26:08 > 0:26:13Al-Shabaab have heightened the UN targeting.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18UNHCR who we're staying with at the moment
0:26:18 > 0:26:20are top of that list
0:26:20 > 0:26:24so we are actually the top targets at the moment as in UNHCR.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26So we're at a place where that could potentially be attacked?
0:26:26 > 0:26:28Yes, definitely.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Oh, my gosh!
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Scary.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39The rest of the trip is a nervous one.
0:26:39 > 0:26:44Anything out of the ordinary is a worry for her security team.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47That's odd, isn't it?
0:26:48 > 0:26:51There's an abandoned lorry straddling their side
0:26:51 > 0:26:52of the carriageway,
0:26:52 > 0:26:54and it could be a trap.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58That's a classic ambush thing.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01There's something in the road there and so you have to drive round it
0:27:01 > 0:27:03And there's a bang.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05That's the kind of thing they do.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Oh, my gosh! Guys, don't scare me.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Samira is risking her life being here,
0:27:13 > 0:27:16but it's only for a short time.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19The aid workers on the Somali border live under constant threat.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24Dolo Ado is a fairly high risk area.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27There's always what they call an abstract threat
0:27:27 > 0:27:30where something could happen.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32We're very close to the border.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34We tell our base every time we leave
0:27:34 > 0:27:36and every time we come back
0:27:36 > 0:27:38or every time we arrive at another location.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40So, they know what vehicle we're in
0:27:40 > 0:27:42and where we are at any given time,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45we don't move around in the dark, at all.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52They're only providing humanitarian aid,
0:27:52 > 0:27:54but to terrorists, they're not welcome.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Al-Shabaab wants its own people
0:27:57 > 0:27:58to be in its own country.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01It doesn't take kindly to people fleeing the country
0:28:01 > 0:28:03and organisations
0:28:03 > 0:28:06that offer asylum and assistance
0:28:06 > 0:28:10to people who are running away are therefore not well-received.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18It's over 40 degrees in the camp.
0:28:18 > 0:28:22And there's no escape from the sun.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24But life goes on.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27And while Samira's family were able to leave,
0:28:27 > 0:28:30most of the people who come here never will.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32After 21 years of war,
0:28:32 > 0:28:33going home is not an option
0:28:37 > 0:28:39With makeshift schools and shops,
0:28:39 > 0:28:42they're building a new kind of normality.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44- Maria.- Maria.
0:28:44 > 0:28:45- Maria.- Maria.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47- She is.- She is.
0:28:47 > 0:28:49- She is.- She is.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52But as Samira takes it all in,
0:28:52 > 0:28:54she realises something else she hadn't expected.
0:28:54 > 0:28:57The more time I spend in the refugee camp,
0:28:57 > 0:29:02the more time I realise that there are so many women and children.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07And there's like, hardly any men.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10I want to know why. Where's all the men?
0:29:10 > 0:29:13If everyone's fleeing, where are the men?
0:29:15 > 0:29:16Where's your husband?
0:29:30 > 0:29:31When he married you,
0:29:31 > 0:29:34shouldn't he have looked after you and the children?
0:29:37 > 0:29:41I just think it's not right, shouldn't happen,
0:29:41 > 0:29:44They're abusing the religion.
0:29:44 > 0:29:45He got married to you.
0:29:45 > 0:29:47You guys have children.
0:29:47 > 0:29:48He should be here.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51In Somalia a man is allowed to have four wives,
0:29:51 > 0:29:55but he must be able to look after and support them all.
0:29:57 > 0:30:01Nearly 90% of this camp is women and children.
0:30:03 > 0:30:06It's wrong because it's like, "Yeah, have sex with you,
0:30:06 > 0:30:08"create four or five babies.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11"Bye, see yous, wouldn't want to be yous."
0:30:11 > 0:30:13It just reminds me of my mum,
0:30:13 > 0:30:16because she was in a refugee camp,
0:30:16 > 0:30:18and dad wasn't there
0:30:18 > 0:30:21and my mum had to go through this without dad,
0:30:21 > 0:30:23It's really sad.
0:30:26 > 0:30:32Without their husbands at the camp, many women are preyed on.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34Hodan, from the woman's association,
0:30:34 > 0:30:37has asked to speak to Samira urgently.
0:30:58 > 0:31:00Oh, my gosh!
0:31:02 > 0:31:03Oh, my gosh!
0:31:12 > 0:31:16Hodan says this is the fourth incident of rape this month.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19The victims are traumatized.
0:31:20 > 0:31:23Have you guys gone to the hospital?
0:31:58 > 0:32:02Not all local Ethiopians want the refugee camps on their doorstep,
0:32:02 > 0:32:04and rape can be used as a weapon against the women.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20People need to understand that these people don't choose to be here.
0:32:20 > 0:32:21They don't choose to be in a tent
0:32:21 > 0:32:23sharing with 20 people.
0:32:23 > 0:32:24They come from somewhere.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26They all come from homes.
0:32:26 > 0:32:30Whether it's a mud hut, whether it's a house, they come from somewhere.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32What they've gone through is not by choice.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38After ten days here, it's time for Samira to leave
0:32:38 > 0:32:41and move on to the next stage of her journey.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44But the camps have left a lasting impression.
0:32:47 > 0:32:51Somalian women are just, like, so strong it's crazy.
0:32:51 > 0:32:54The women are the ones that go through everything,
0:32:54 > 0:32:56They're the ones fleeing the war, fleeing the drought,
0:32:56 > 0:33:00raising the children, and they're still getting abused.
0:33:00 > 0:33:05It's made me look at strength in a completely different way.
0:33:05 > 0:33:10Next, Samira will see what the refugees are running from.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16A majority of these people are here because
0:33:16 > 0:33:18of the issues in Mogadishu and I'm going there,
0:33:18 > 0:33:21so, every time I say to someone, "I'm going to Mogadishu,"
0:33:21 > 0:33:23they're like, "Really?
0:33:23 > 0:33:25"Do you know what you're saying?"
0:33:25 > 0:33:29Quite excited. It feels quite gangsta!
0:33:36 > 0:33:39She's going back to the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu,
0:33:39 > 0:33:42for the first time since she was ten days old.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45It's 21 years since war broke out,
0:33:45 > 0:33:49and Samira's mother escaped the city leaving everything but her children.
0:33:49 > 0:33:52Two decades of lawlessness,
0:33:52 > 0:33:55up to a million dead,
0:33:55 > 0:33:57and millions more still running.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59Mogadishu has earned itself the title
0:33:59 > 0:34:03of The Most Dangerous City In The World.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06Samira's plane touches down to a sharp reminder
0:34:06 > 0:34:08of exactly why they left.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10There's a security alert.
0:34:10 > 0:34:12- How many of there are you?- Three.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17A suicide bomber has attacked the centre of Mogadishu,
0:34:17 > 0:34:21walking distance from the airport, and five people are dead.
0:34:21 > 0:34:26I am bloody scared, because of al-Shabaab
0:34:26 > 0:34:30and there's fighting going on there, now, as we speak.
0:34:30 > 0:34:34And anything can happen at any time.
0:35:00 > 0:35:05For security reasons, Samira will be restricted
0:35:05 > 0:35:07to the army compound, a mile from the airport.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13The sound of gunfire is constant,
0:35:13 > 0:35:16and known locally as the music of Mogadishu.
0:35:20 > 0:35:23For the first time in over twenty years the battle for control
0:35:23 > 0:35:27of Mogadishu is being won by the pro-government troops.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30But they're under constant attack.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32How safe is this area?
0:35:32 > 0:35:35We expect anything at anytime.
0:35:35 > 0:35:40In the last three days we have had like five explosives.
0:35:42 > 0:35:44You can see the dust from here.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47What has happened outside can happen here.
0:35:50 > 0:35:55It is really scary being here. We are actually in the heart of war.
0:35:55 > 0:36:01I don't want to let al-Shabaab win and make me scared.
0:36:01 > 0:36:04If we're scared then no-one will fight against them,
0:36:04 > 0:36:06so I've chosen to be strong.
0:36:06 > 0:36:11This is a war where young people are on the front line.
0:36:11 > 0:36:14Many of the victims are brought to the compound for treatment.
0:36:34 > 0:36:35How old is he?
0:36:35 > 0:36:38He is...
0:36:40 > 0:36:42But in a war that's entering its third decade,
0:36:42 > 0:36:45young people are not only victims.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13By recruiting the youth, al-Shabaab are hoping
0:37:13 > 0:37:16that the future of Somalia as a hard line Islamic state is assured.
0:37:16 > 0:37:20Al-Shabaab are ruining the country.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23They're ruining the future of the country
0:37:23 > 0:37:27and they're ruining the future generation, the youth, children.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29They're ruining everything.
0:37:29 > 0:37:32I feel quite silly because I'm Somali
0:37:32 > 0:37:35and I knew that this was happening
0:37:35 > 0:37:39but I didn't really pay much attention to it.
0:37:43 > 0:37:46In her mom's stories about Mogadishu
0:37:46 > 0:37:48it's not all about war
0:37:48 > 0:37:50and al-Shabaab.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54She's been told about the beautiful places her mother played as a child.
0:37:54 > 0:37:57Look how beautiful that is!
0:38:02 > 0:38:04This is my home!
0:38:04 > 0:38:06I want to just jump in.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10My mum left this.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12She had to.
0:38:12 > 0:38:16She had no choice and now I'm here.
0:38:17 > 0:38:18It feels like an achievement.
0:38:21 > 0:38:25But danger is never very far away.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29The gunfire is getting louder.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36Al-Shabaab are close by.
0:38:49 > 0:38:51It's Samira's second day in Mogadishu,
0:38:51 > 0:38:52and despite the danger,
0:38:52 > 0:38:57she's still keen to see more of the city she was born in.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00But to do so, she's risking her life,
0:39:00 > 0:39:02and all precautions are taken.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04That's probably about right. OK?
0:39:14 > 0:39:17For the troops, it's a routine tour of the city,
0:39:17 > 0:39:21but for Samira, it's stepping into the abyss.
0:39:42 > 0:39:46The destruction is worse than Samira expected.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49The city has been reduced to a pile of machine-gun-chewed bricks
0:39:49 > 0:39:51ripped apart by violence.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54The killing goes on.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57Suicide bombs, RPGs, beheadings,
0:39:57 > 0:39:59medieval-style stonings -
0:39:59 > 0:40:02all are common place in this city of terror.
0:40:11 > 0:40:15Like Samira's family, most people have run from the city,
0:40:15 > 0:40:19but Samira wants to find out what it's like for those
0:40:19 > 0:40:21from her generation left behind.
0:40:41 > 0:40:45Even though it looks absolutely devastating now,
0:40:45 > 0:40:48I could imagine what this would've looked like.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55Before the war, Mogadishu was known
0:40:55 > 0:40:59for its classical Italian architecture, and its sandy beaches.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06Idyllically set on the Indian Ocean,
0:41:06 > 0:41:10Mogadishu was once full of holidaymakers.
0:41:21 > 0:41:22Really?
0:41:25 > 0:41:26Samira has come to meet Abdi,
0:41:26 > 0:41:29a 29-year-old translator.
0:41:29 > 0:41:31He has spent his whole life in Mogadishu,
0:41:31 > 0:41:35and is part of the lost generation of Somalis.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52How has the war affected you?
0:41:52 > 0:41:54- For me?- Yeah.
0:42:19 > 0:42:23This country's too beautiful to waste.
0:42:23 > 0:42:27It's too beautiful to just say, "This is it."
0:42:33 > 0:42:36Samira had hoped to visit the house she was born in,
0:42:36 > 0:42:38but has been told it's too dangerous.
0:42:42 > 0:42:46Instead, she gets a chance go to the ruins of a football stadium...
0:42:50 > 0:42:53..to meet Shukri, born in the same year, the same month,
0:42:53 > 0:42:55and in the same district as Samira.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02How's your life been here?
0:43:04 > 0:43:06But it's hard.
0:43:16 > 0:43:19She said, "Take me now. Take me to London!"
0:43:20 > 0:43:23Samira has always wondered how her life might have been
0:43:23 > 0:43:26if she'd stayed in Mogadishu,
0:43:26 > 0:43:30and talking to Shukri gives her a chance to find out.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41For girls of the same age, their lives are poles apart.
0:43:41 > 0:43:44Samira has just started her modelling career,
0:43:44 > 0:43:46whilst Shukri was married at 15
0:43:46 > 0:43:47and had her first child a year later.
0:43:50 > 0:43:53But it's Shukri's experience of war that Samira finds difficult
0:43:53 > 0:43:55to come to terms with.
0:44:32 > 0:44:34I can't. Why did they do this?
0:44:47 > 0:44:50The thought that, actually,
0:44:50 > 0:44:54this is how my life would be if me and my family stayed
0:44:54 > 0:44:58or whether I would be alive or dead.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00I don't really know.
0:45:00 > 0:45:03I feel very frustrated and angry
0:45:03 > 0:45:07that nobody's stopping this torture and suffering.
0:45:12 > 0:45:14Oh, gosh!
0:45:16 > 0:45:21Samira has just got back into the compound when some news comes in.
0:45:21 > 0:45:23There's been a skirmish at the stadium.
0:45:23 > 0:45:28- The stadium's just been hit. - Where we were?
0:45:28 > 0:45:33Are you serious, the stadium that we were just at has been hit?
0:45:36 > 0:45:39Oh, my gosh!
0:45:39 > 0:45:42What about Shukri? Is she OK?
0:45:44 > 0:45:47No one knows what has happened to Shukri.
0:45:53 > 0:45:57It's the next morning, Samira's last day in Mogadishu,
0:45:57 > 0:46:01when the news finally comes in that Shukri's alive and well.
0:46:04 > 0:46:07Oh, thank you.
0:46:07 > 0:46:09As she leaves Samira learns the true extent
0:46:09 > 0:46:11of al-Shabaab activity during her stay.
0:46:11 > 0:46:14There's about five suicide bombs.
0:46:14 > 0:46:18And loads of civilians were, obviously, killed and injured.
0:46:18 > 0:46:22It's mad, cos I got out of it but people are still there.
0:46:22 > 0:46:27Somali people are still there and they're in the middle of all of this.
0:46:29 > 0:46:33Before Samira goes back to the safety of Britain,
0:46:33 > 0:46:35she's got one more stop.
0:46:35 > 0:46:39Hargeisa, the main city of Somaliland.
0:46:44 > 0:46:49One of the very few regions that hasn't been devastated by the war.
0:46:49 > 0:46:52It's a place where you can forget about the chaos
0:46:52 > 0:46:55and the rest of the country.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58Or, at least, almost forget.
0:46:58 > 0:47:00Oh, I like that one.
0:47:00 > 0:47:03Somaliland has declared independence from the rest of Somalia,
0:47:03 > 0:47:05and has a blossoming economy.
0:47:05 > 0:47:09It's busy! I like! Everyone making money and doing things,
0:47:09 > 0:47:10which is great.
0:47:10 > 0:47:14I haven't heard no gunshots and I haven't heard no explosions,
0:47:14 > 0:47:18so that is hope already.
0:47:18 > 0:47:21But the city has its own horrors
0:47:21 > 0:47:23deeply rooted in Samira's culture.
0:47:23 > 0:47:26And that's the reason she's come here.
0:47:26 > 0:47:30Because although she looks similar to the other women in Hargeisa,
0:47:30 > 0:47:32there's a difference.
0:47:32 > 0:47:36Nearly all the woman here have been deliberately mutilated.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39To Samira, it's another war -
0:47:39 > 0:47:41on woman by woman.
0:47:41 > 0:47:44Once known as female circumcision,
0:47:44 > 0:47:49the procedure now referred to as FGM, Female Genital Mutilation,
0:47:49 > 0:47:51is considered by the UN to be a violation
0:47:51 > 0:47:53of human rights.
0:47:53 > 0:47:57But it's legal in many parts of Somalia.
0:47:57 > 0:48:01Over 90% of Somali women have had it done -
0:48:01 > 0:48:05some when they were just four years old.
0:48:05 > 0:48:07You literally get your clitoris removed
0:48:07 > 0:48:10and your vagina sewn together,
0:48:10 > 0:48:14and they create a little hole for you to wee out of.
0:48:14 > 0:48:17It's that brutal.
0:48:20 > 0:48:23Like many women brought up the west,
0:48:23 > 0:48:25Samira is outraged by FGM -
0:48:25 > 0:48:28a practice that was nearly forced upon her.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31My mum, she wanted us to go through FGM
0:48:31 > 0:48:36and my grandma, the life saviour, said no.
0:48:36 > 0:48:38My mum, I just can't believe she'd want that.
0:48:38 > 0:48:41Maybe it's because, I'd say brainwashed
0:48:41 > 0:48:46cos of the community, society and people made her believe
0:48:46 > 0:48:48that that that is what
0:48:48 > 0:48:54has to done or we'd probably go crazy or have sex out of marriage.
0:48:54 > 0:48:58Samira's mum wouldn't have carried out the procedure herself.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01She'd have gone to the women known as Cutters.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03They circumcise thousands of young girls every year,
0:49:03 > 0:49:06and have no medical training.
0:49:08 > 0:49:10Samira wants to understand why they do it.
0:49:10 > 0:49:13They're a bit scary.
0:49:13 > 0:49:20Knowing that they've done it to. loads of other girls bothers me.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23But to these women, it's as normal as getting married
0:49:23 > 0:49:25and having children.
0:49:42 > 0:49:44Before being allowed to marry,
0:49:44 > 0:49:47the bride-to-be is inspected by the mother-in-law
0:49:47 > 0:49:49to ensure that the stitching is intact
0:49:49 > 0:49:50and the girl is still a virgin.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53Only then will the stitching be removed.
0:49:53 > 0:49:55I'm sure you know you're causing these girls further complication
0:49:55 > 0:49:57in the future.
0:50:04 > 0:50:05Don't you guys think it's wrong
0:50:05 > 0:50:07you're removing what god gave to a women?
0:50:15 > 0:50:18Samira is offered the chance to make up her own mind.
0:50:18 > 0:50:21Tomorrow, one of the women is circumcising her daughter.
0:50:21 > 0:50:24She's six years old.
0:50:24 > 0:50:27Fuck off, man! Six years old!
0:50:27 > 0:50:30I can't! I can't! I can't!
0:50:30 > 0:50:32They're going to physically mutilate a six-year-old.
0:50:32 > 0:50:36Does that not make anybody physically sick?
0:50:36 > 0:50:38Please just stop fucking filming me.
0:50:42 > 0:50:44She's horrified.
0:50:44 > 0:50:46Samira has niece of a similar age,
0:50:46 > 0:50:50and she can't stand back and let it happen
0:50:52 > 0:50:55She reluctantly goes to the Cutter's house in search of the girl.
0:51:05 > 0:51:08I'm shocked to see that it still happens
0:51:08 > 0:51:09and I'm shocked that you think it's OK
0:51:09 > 0:51:12for it to happen to your six-year-old daughter,
0:51:12 > 0:51:14Don't you think she's too young?
0:51:26 > 0:51:29What do you leave? A hole to wee?
0:51:34 > 0:51:37A little hole the size of your nostril
0:51:39 > 0:51:41Are you OK?
0:51:42 > 0:51:44Are you look scared?
0:51:44 > 0:51:46She looks frightened.
0:51:54 > 0:51:57As a Muslim, Samira prays everyday.
0:51:57 > 0:52:01But today's prayer has a special intention.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03The little girl just looked so innocent.
0:52:03 > 0:52:07She had no clue what's going to happen to her.
0:52:07 > 0:52:12Tomorrow is going to be a really traumatic experience for her,
0:52:12 > 0:52:17but I feel like I should go for the sake of the little girl.
0:52:29 > 0:52:32It's Samira's last day in Somalia.
0:52:32 > 0:52:37And at first light, she gets to the young girl's house.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43Where's the little girl?
0:52:46 > 0:52:48She's too late.
0:52:48 > 0:52:51The operation has already been done.
0:52:51 > 0:52:52Oh, my gosh!
0:52:57 > 0:52:59Is she in pain?
0:53:17 > 0:53:21Oh, oh, gosh!
0:53:32 > 0:53:35Samira has seen why the procedure is done
0:53:35 > 0:53:37but she'll never agree with it.
0:53:37 > 0:53:39The girl seems OK.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45It's still not right.
0:53:45 > 0:53:48This part of the Somali culture, I will never accept and understand.
0:53:48 > 0:53:52I just think it's abuse
0:53:52 > 0:53:55rather that culture.
0:53:56 > 0:53:59I feel so happy that I haven't had that done to me.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20After four weeks in Africa,
0:54:20 > 0:54:23it's time for Samira to go back to Britain.
0:54:23 > 0:54:26In her time here, Samira has seen all kinds of suffering,
0:54:26 > 0:54:29some of which has its roots in her culture,
0:54:29 > 0:54:35but the bulk of the destruction has come from 21 years of war.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37I'm going back to London.
0:54:37 > 0:54:42There are Somalis that are going through this daily struggle,
0:54:42 > 0:54:48poverty, the refugee camps, the women, the malnourished kids.
0:54:49 > 0:54:52People in Mogadishu can't rebuild their lives
0:54:52 > 0:54:56because they're still living in war.
0:54:56 > 0:54:59Every single day Somali's are dying.
0:55:01 > 0:55:03The experience has answered many of her questions,
0:55:03 > 0:55:07but it's affected her more deeply than she'd ever expected.
0:55:07 > 0:55:11She now realises how lucky she's been.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13I can see what my mum went through,
0:55:13 > 0:55:18and that will definitely change my relationship with my mum.
0:55:18 > 0:55:23When I get back, I don't think I will ever appreciate her more.
0:55:23 > 0:55:28The whole journey has changed me in terms of the religion
0:55:28 > 0:55:30and in terms of the way I dress.
0:55:30 > 0:55:31I probably would
0:55:31 > 0:55:34think about the type of modelling I do,
0:55:34 > 0:55:37and try and go to the modest pathway into modelling,
0:55:37 > 0:55:44cos I think you don't have to take all your clothes off to be a model.
0:55:46 > 0:55:48Mama!
0:55:49 > 0:55:52Aww, Mum,
0:55:52 > 0:55:55Oh, Mum. It's been too long.
0:55:55 > 0:55:57Are you all right?
0:55:57 > 0:55:59Yeah, I am.
0:55:59 > 0:56:00I'm so glad, to come back.
0:56:00 > 0:56:04Aww mum, it's so good to be home.
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